Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker and Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn finished it off by the end of the year. Joker: Folie à Deuxbut exactly why wasn’t clear to all moviegoers.
The Joker and Harley Quinn have become one of the most famous romances in comics and certainly the most iconic villainous pairing.
Folie à Deux introduces a completely different Harley Quinn, played by singer Lady Gaga, who falls for the Joker, aka Arthur Fleck, after her murderous deeds and the movement she started in the 2019 original film.
Why did Harley Quinn break up with the Joker?
Warning – The rest of this article contains spoilers Joker: Folie à Deux.
all the time Joker: Folie à DeuxLady Gaga’s Harley Quinn keeps proving one thing – she’s in love with the Joker, not Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck.
Between her love of chaos, the way she idolizes the Joker, and the sea of lies she tells Arthur, Harley makes it clear that the Clown Prince of Crime is her true love.
This is only further proven when Arthur decides to represent himself as the Joker and Harley says, “You can do whatever you want. You’re the Joker.”
In his closing statement in court towards the end Joker 2Arthur denounced the title of Joker, much to Harley’s chagrin. The DC villain explained that the Joker was nothing but a fantasy and that he, Arthur, murdered those six people, prompting Harley to leave the court entirely.
Harley’s exit from the courtroom and her displeasure with the speech clarified what fans knew from the beginning – she was in love with the Joker, not Arthur.
So, when Arthur reunites with Harley in the infamous steps Joker 2To his confusing end, ready to run away together and start a new life after escaping his courtroom, the femme fatale tells him, “We just had a fantasy and you gave up.”
In addition to breaking up with Arthur here and abandoning their fantasy plans to run away together, Harley confirmed that she was never pregnant despite what she told him earlier in Arkham Asylum.
What happened next to Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn?
Director Todd Phillips has already bid farewell to DC and confirmed that he won’t Joker 3 After the death of Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck. That means you’ll never know for sure what happened next to Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn.
Just before the final scene on the stairs, Harley could be seen with a gun to her head as she listened to Arthur’s voicemail, apparently putting her on the verge of suicide after witnessing the death of her one true love – the Joker.
After getting Arthur to close their relationship, she may have ended her life later or started a new crush.
Phillips confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that Phoenix’s character has “always been Arthur Fleck” and not “this idea that the people of Gotham took to him” confirmation of the real Joker is yet to come.
Perhaps the real Joker who will one day face the Dark Knight is Connor Storrie’s Arkham Asylum inmate, who killed Arthur at the end of the film before taking the Clown Prince’s iconic smile off his face.
With the real Joker still to come, one has to wonder if Harley will simply become obsessed with the next person to take up the mantle, whether it’s Arthur’s young killer with another Gothamian altogether.
Again, this all hinges on the idea that death wasn’t what Harley followed after visiting the famous dance steps. And if there was, maybe someone else would take on his identity the same way the Joker did.
To add an alternative perspective to the mix, some have suggested that Harley committed suicide while listening to Arthur’s voicemail, and the one who bid her goodbye was just another figment of her imagination.
Joker: Folie à Deux is now playing in theaters worldwide.
